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A two-hour procedure for determining the susceptibility of enterococci and staphylococci to antibiotics by a
Gabriel Alberto March-Rosselló1, María Purificación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, María Simarro-Grande
1Gabriel Alberto March Rosselló, Servicio de Microbiología e Inmunología, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Spain. gmr810@hotmail.com.
Introduction:
Rapid determination of the antibiotic susceptibility test in bacteria remains a challenge for Clinical Microbiology laboratories.
Methods:
An improvement in the colorimetric antimicrobial susceptibility testing performed with resazurin in enterococci and staphylococci has been carried out. The design of method was performed using two collection strains, which have a known susceptibility. This procedure was then validated against standard commercial methods on 15 strains of staphylococci and 15 strains of enterococci from patients.
Results:
The essential agreement between the colorimetric method and commercial methods (E-test, MicroScan and VITEK2) was 100%.
Conclusion:
Resazurin allows us to obtain a reliable antibiotic susceptibility test in staphylococci and enterococci in less than two hours.
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